Madison Gagnon

North Shore Wellness Centre

200 - 145 W. 17th Street, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 3G4

My journey in the healthcare world started when I was in high school. I played high level ringette and ended up injuring my knee badly and needed to go to physiotherapy. It opened me up to this world that allowed me to encompass what I loved, sports and science, into one career. I was then lucky enough to be able to take a kinesiology class in high school and knew it was the program for me. I applied to UBC for Kinesiology and graduated from there in 2018 with my degree in Kinesiology. After I graduated, I moved to Edmonton and worked as a kinesiologist at a gym and at a physiotherapy clinic while also working as an athletic therapist with a hockey team. I was unsure of what I wanted to do and if I wanted to go back to school. I spent a couple years working and realized that integrating myself fully in the healthcare world was a passion I wanted to pursue. When covid hit, I moved back to Vancouver, started working at a high-level athletic gym and started my application for massage therapy, where I will graduate from in August 2022. Personally, I have always been active, playing sports when I was younger, hiking through the beautiful BC mountains, playing recreational team and Olympic lifting and functional training to allow me to continue to keep the mobility and strength I need to do the activities I love. My goal for the near future is integrate massage therapy with my current knowledge and experience in kinesiology and biomechanics to help people create, or regain, a lifestyle that they want. As someone who has suffered from injuries, I thought may take away my quality of life, I understand the importance of getting back to the level of activity that you want, both for mental and physical health. With massage I like to utilize active stretching and muscle activation to help reteach movements and elicit better muscle responses. I use my kinesiology background to create an exercise program to help build a great base of support to allow people to get back to the activities they love. I have quite firm pressure and focus on detail over doing a full body massage. Specifically I enjoy working with headache, TMJ dysfunction, posture dysfunction, and athletic injuries. I am a firm believer that creating a concrete base of support is the key to recovery, correct movement, and resiliency as we age. I can’t wait to help you reach your goals!